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Originally posted by Timber Loftis: I've perused my Nycomacien ethics and still can't find why there is a moral imperative to not kill criminals as punishment for a crime yet there is not one against imprisoning them for the crime. If you really are imprisoning them for life, I do not see how some magnitude of harm makes it acceptable for society to exact one of these wrongs but not the other. In fact, since so many of you argue that imprisonment is a worse punishment,* seems to me the moral imperative is to kill them, and not make them suffer the torture of imprisonment. Let them pay their debt and be done with it. Or at least give all prisoners the hari kari option to fall on a sword if they prefer it. More humane. Plus, you'd get to keep a way cool wakizashi in all warden offices. Speaking of decorating.... oh, I'm getting way far afield now, aren't I? * Note how I love to point out the "can't have your cake and eat it too" side of arguing execution is inhumane, but that we who are for it should take solace in how much the imprisoned many suffers. You can't have it both way folks. Be namby pamby or don't -- just don't be namby pamby about your namby pambiness. It's too confusing. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I don't exactly get your point.